Lastly, WhatsApp — known for embedding Apple Color Emoji images in their app on all platforms — updated this week to include the iOS 10 set. Still no word from Apple on Unicode 9 emoji support, which has now been present on Android and Windows for months.

Emoji Wrap

💭 Interesting

Filed under "things I did not expect to learn about Fatboy Slim" is his huge collection of "smiley" memorabilia. On emojis: 'I’m also quite shortsighted, so people send me emojis and I’m like, “Is that smiling? Is that crying?"'

🗓 Events

Shallow Pan Of Food (aka paella emoji) was approved as part of Unicode 9 in June. To celebrate its impending (??) arrival on iOS, join this cooking of 3,000 pans of paella at Paseo de la Alameda in Valencia. Original is not in English. This is translated.

Now in it's 25th year, this is the conference for anyone involved or interested in multilingual software, internationalization and Unicode. Held in Santa Clara, California. Last year had a number of interesting talks on emoji, and no doubt there will also be some this year too.